Re: Chinese characters in mail search causes failed assertion in slapd

[Dieter KlÃnter <dieter@dkluenter.de>]

Am Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:57:31 +1100
schrieb Alfie John <alfiej@opera.com>:

> On Tue, Feb 7, 2012, at 09:14 AM, Pierangelo Masarati wrote:
> > In addition, I suggest you check whether the problem persists with
> > the latest release; in case, please file an ITS following
> > instructions here <http://www.openldap.org/faq/data/cache/56.html>.
> 
> Thanks for the pointer.
> 
> I was using Debian's upstream which I doubt is the latest release.
> I'll look tomorrow.
> 
> I don't think filing a bug is the correct thing to do since as Dieter
> pointed out the problem is with bogus mail applications breaking the
> RFC and not a bug in OpenLDAP. However with the practicality of using
> UTF-8 for the mail attribute value is pragmatic. Thoughts?

All you could do, is creating a new private attribute type with syntax
directory string and configure applications to use this new attribute
type.

-Dieter

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